The Oaks Airfield

The Oaks Airfield is an unlicensed private airfield located in The Oaks, New South Wales in the Wollondilly Shire, west of Sydney Australia. Originally built by the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) during World War II, today the airfield caters mostly to recreational aircraft and flight training and is home to the Sydney Recreational Flying Club.

The airfield is a heritage listed site and is the only satellite airfield constructed during the war in greater Sydney to still be in used for aviation activities.

The airport has three grass runways, 2 parallel 850 m × 45 m (2,789 ft × 148 ft) strips aligned north-south and a much shorter east-west strip just 400 m (1,312 ft) used only for emergencies. As the airport is not a licensed aerodrome and does not have a control tower, simultaneous operations on parallel runways are not permitted, so only one of these strips is in use at any one time, adopting the designation 18/36.

The unused strip is allowed to lie fallow to maintain the runway surface. The airfield is generally restricted to aircraft with a Maximum Takeoff Weight under 5,700 kg (12,600 lb). There is no runway lighting so operations are limited to daylight hours.
 

Airport Name	ICAO / IATA	City served
The Oaks Airfield	n/a	The Oaks, New South Wales

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